Ryan Tomayko

Check out these HTML5 demos —

A bunch of animated gifs are worth a thousand words.

Optimizing Optimizing HTML —

Oh neat. You can drop the type='text/javascript' from your <script> tags, type='text/css' from your <style> (and/or <link rel='stylesheet'>) tags and the browsers won’t care. Also, in 2010, <b> and <i> are cooler than <strong> and <em>, and trailing slashes on self closing tags are lame.

Personally, I like these little tricks for making HTML more human readable but I can’t believe people are actually doing stuff like this in an attempt to compress HTML to gain network/browser efficiencies. I dare someone to actually benchmark those optimizations. Cutting your sucky EULA page in half and trimming away all that shit in your header/sidebar would be much more productive (but still barely worthwhile).

Detecting HTML 5 Features —

Mark has published the second chapter in his upcoming book, Dive Into HTML 5. I still can’t get past the typography. It’s so pretty.

Dive Into HTML 5 —

My God the typography is stunning. There’s currently only a single chapter — on Canvas — but I imagine the others will fill in rather quickly.

The Road to HTML 5: getElementsByClassName() —

Includes a brief history of native support for getElementsByClassName in Mozilla and other browsers.

HTML5 Validator —

Highly experimental HTML 5 validation service. More info and bookmarklets available on the about page.